| Loveland, Ohio |
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| City of Loveland, Ohio |
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Historic Downtown Loveland |
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| Nickname(s): Sweetheart of Ohio |
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Location in Hamilton, Clermont, and Warren Counties in Ohio |
| Coordinates: 39°16′8″N 84°16′14″W / 39.26889°N 84.27056°W / 39.26889; -84.27056Coordinates: 39°16′8″N 84°16′14″W / 39.26889°N 84.27056°W / 39.26889; -84.27056 |
| Country |
United States |
| State |
Ohio |
| Counties |
Hamilton, Clermont, Warren |
| Settled |
1795 |
| Incorporated (village) |
May 12, 1876 |
| Chartered (city) |
1961 |
| Founder |
Col. Thomas Paxton |
| Named for |
James Loveland |
| Government |
| - Type |
Council-manager |
| - Mayor |
Rob Weisgerber (R) |
| - City manager |
Tom Carroll |
| Area |
| - Total |
4.7 sq mi (12.2 km2) |
| - Land |
4.7 sq mi (12.0 km2) |
| - Water |
0.1 sq mi (0.2 km2) 1.28% |
| Elevation |
597 ft (182 m) |
| Population (2000) |
| - Total |
11,667 |
| - Density |
2,513.5/sq mi (969.6/km2) |
| Time zone |
EST (UTC-5) |
| - Summer (DST) |
EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP codes |
45140, 45249[1] |
| Area code(s) |
513 |
| FIPS code |
39-45108[2][page needed] |
| GNIS feature ID |
1085672[3][page needed] |
| LOCODE |
US XHT |
| Website |
City of Loveland |
Loveland (pronounced /ˈlʌvlənd/ LUV-lənd) is a city in Hamilton, Clermont, and Warren counties in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Considered part of the Greater Cincinnati area, Loveland is located near exit 52 off Interstate 275, about fifteen miles northeast of the Cincinnati city limits. It borders Symmes, Miami and Hamilton Townships. The population was 11,677 at the 2000 census,[2][page needed] and was estimated at 11,154 in 2006.[4]
Geography
Loveland is located at 39°16′08″N 84°16′13″W / 39.268759°N 84.270397°W / 39.268759; -84.270397 (39.268759, -84.270397).[5][page needed]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.7 square miles (12.2 km²). 4.7 square miles (12.0 km²) of it is land and 0.1 sq mi (0.2 km² or 1.28%) of it is water. The city is situated at an elevation of 597 ft. (182 m) above sea level.
Loveland can be reached by car most easily via Interstate 275, but State Route 48 also serves the city. State Route 3 / U.S. Route 22 touches the northwestern corner of Loveland, and State Route 126 passes through Remington and Miamiville to the south.
Loveland is located within three counties: Hamilton County, Clermont County, and Warren County. At least 61 Ohio cities cross county lines.[6] Historic Downtown Loveland and the central business district lie in a small valley on opposite sides of the Little Miami Scenic River, the boundary between Hamilton and Clermont counties, whereas most of Loveland's residential areas are located on the hills surrounding the valley on either side. Loveland City Hall is located in Clermont County, whereas most of the population resides in Hamilton County.[6]
These areas include some neighborhoods from the 1950s and earlier, as well as a number of newer subdivisions built as part of the urban sprawl that saw nearby Mason grow tremendously. Unlike Mason and other suburbs closer to Interstate 71 and Interstate 75, Loveland is considered somewhat of a "bedroom community", where residential neighborhoods (and churches) seemingly outnumber businesses, and most residents make the half-hour commute to Downtown Cincinnati for work each day.
The 513 area code includes the entirety of Loveland. The 45140 ZIP code also includes the entire city, with the exception of a few recently-annexed businesses that belong to the 45249 ZIP code (Symmes).[1] The United States Postal Service lists a number of place names as unacceptable for this ZIP code, including "Murdock", "Symmes Township", and "Twenty Mile Stand"; however, "Loveland, Ohio" is acceptable for Camp Dennison's 45111 ZIP code. The 45108 FIPS55 code and US XHT LOCODE both correspond to the city proper.
Government and services
Loveland uses a council-manager form of government. The Loveland City Council has seven seats. As of 2008[update], they are held by Mayor Rob Weisgerber, Vice Mayor Dave Bednar, and councilmembers Paul Elliot, Mark Fitzgerald, Todd Osborne, Joe Schickel, and Brent Zuch.[7] Tom Carroll is city manager.[8]
At the federal level, the entirety of Loveland is located within the Ohio Second Congressional District. At the state level, it is also served by the 35th and 66th House Districts and the Seventh, Eighth, and 14th Senate Districts.[9] See Ohio House of Representatives and Ohio Senate for the current representatives of the respective state districts.
According to the Loveland Code of Ordinances, the city's corporate seal consists of "the coat of arms of the state engraved in the center and the words 'City of Loveland' engraved around the edge".[10]
Loveland is protected by the Loveland Police Division and the Loveland–Symmes Fire Department. Dispatching for both is handled by Northeast Communications Center (NECC), which provides Wireless Enhanced 911 service and also activates the local network of tornado sirens.[11]
The city lies in the Little Miami telephone exchange, within Cincinnati Bell's ILEC coverage area.[12] Loveland receives electric and natural gas services from Duke Energy Ohio, formerly Cincinnati Gas & Electric.[13][14] Loveland has water interconnectivity agreements with the City of Cincinnati and Clermont County.[15] Since 1985, Loveland has been part of the Greater Cincinnati Metropolitan Sewer District; this arrangement is set to expire in 2010.[16]
History
Present-day Loveland originally lay at the edges of the Symmes Purchase and Virginia Military District, in what was then the Northwest Territory. The area was first settled in 1795[17] by Col. Thomas Paxton:
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The Kentucky landowners who were dissatisfied with their family land titles sold their holdings and bought land in the Miami valleys. Colonel Thomas Paxton who won his spurs in General Wayne's army and became enamoured with the Miami Country, sold his farm in Kentucky primarily because of a faulty title and bought 1,200 acres where Loveland now stands. He came here at the age of sixty and bought numerous tracts from Colonel Lytle, becoming a wealthy man before his death in 1813. The names of ten of his children who came to Ohio are associated with commodious residences, beautiful gardens and great orchards. |
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—William E. Smith, History of Southwestern Ohio: The Miami Valleys[18]
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The city is named after James Loveland, who operated a general store and post office near the railroad tracks downtown. It was incorporated as a village on May 12, 1876, and later incorporated as a chartered city in 1961.[19]
The original Branch Hill Bridge (Loveland Bridge) that spanned the Little Miami River just south of Loveland. It was washed out by the Flood of 1913 and replaced by the less ornate "Blue Bridge" in 1922.
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Village getaway
In its early days, Loveland was known as a resort town, with its summer homes for the wealthy, earning it the nickname "Little Switzerland of the Miami Valley." Notable residents included future Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase,[21] and the Cincinnati YWCA maintained a summer cottage in Loveland.[22] The area was also home to Ohio's first paper mill, built in 1810 by John Smith. A local road retains the mill's eventual name, Kugler Mill.[23] The area surrounding Loveland in Clermont County was well-known for its peaches and strawberries.[24]
The Hillsboro and Cincinnati Railroad was chartered in 1846 to run a line between Hillsboro and O'Bannon Creek in Loveland on the Little Miami Railroad's route. By 1850, the H&C had completed the thirty-seven miles to Hillsboro, Ohio. The H&C would lease its line in perpetuity to the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad and ultimately became the mainline of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Loveland's location at the junction of the Little Miami Railroad (now converted into the Loveland Bike Trail) and the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad fueled the city's growth, bringing "40 passenger trains per day, and 12 scheduled freight trains between Loveland and Cincinnati."[19] Another railroad ran through pre–Civil War Loveland: the Underground Railroad's Eastern Route from Cincinnati included a stop at the village and continued northward to Waynesville and Lebanon.[25][26]
Settlement of Loveland was confined to the Clermont County side of the river, until the first wagon bridge was built in 1872.[27]
In 1886, the skeleton of a mastodon and prehistoric stone tools were found in a Loveland gravel pit.[28]
In 1903, Loveland voted to become a dry village,[29] prohibiting the sale of alcohol within the village limits 17 years before a national ban. Loveland was a center of the Temperance movement in Ohio.[30]
Downtown Loveland's proximity to the Little Miami River has made it vulnerable to flooding. The worst such event, the Ohio Flood of March 1913, washed out the Loveland Bridge, which was rebuilt over the river at present-day Branch Hill–Miamiville Road, and also destroyed a corn mill.[31]
In the 1920s, The Cincinnati Enquirer ran a promotion that offered a free plot of land in Loveland, along the Little Miami River, after paying for a one-year subscription to the daily.[32] The Loveland Castle (see below) was built on two such plots.
During the 1930s, the nearby town of Branch Hill was home to the Arrowhead Club, a casino associated with the Cleveland Syndicate that served residents of Indian Hill.[33][34]
Growing city
After a population spike during the 1950s, Loveland reincorporated as a chartered city – the first of only two in Clermont County[31] – in 1961, with George Anderson as its first mayor.[19] The city absorbed smaller settlements, such as Paxton,[35] Obanionsville, and Symmestown.
Another major flood in 1959 led to the construction of a dike along the Little Miami River in 1962–1963.[27]
The long-abandoned Little Miami Railroad corridor was converted into a bike trail in the 1980s[36] and became part of the Little Miami Scenic Trail in 1984.[37]
Loveland has periodically sought to expand its borders by annexing surrounding areas, primarily to the more commercially active west. In 1993, the city attempted to annex parts of Deerfield Township, prompting petitions to instead merge the township with the City of Mason.[38] Moves to merge Symmes Township with Loveland began the next year[39] but ultimately failed. In 1996, Loveland moved its eastern border by purchasing Col. Paxton's original White Pillars homestead,[35] which had remained unincorporated, despite being the first settlement in the Loveland area.
Historic Downtown Loveland at the
Loveland Bike Trail crossing. Seen here is Loveland Avenue, which was originally named Jackson Street.
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In the late 1990s, Loveland was designated a Tree City by the National Arbor Day Foundation, as it began a number of efforts to promote its Historic Downtown neighborhood, in part to celebrate the city's bicentennial. The programs included a renovation of Historic Downtown itself to sport a more "gentrified" look, for example replacing concrete sidewalks with brick ones, installing park benches throughout, and providing incentives to businesses willing to improve their façades. Major roads such as South Lebanon Road (County Road 298[41]) were expanded and given landscaped medians.
The Loveland Beautification Committee was established to sponsor various programs and events that aim to improve landscapes and other buildings around town. Under the mayorship of Lee Skierkiewicz, Loveland heavily promoted itself as a cycling destination. The Tour de Loveland, an annual cycling race, was started in order to promote the Loveland Bike Trail as the centerpiece of Historic Downtown Loveland. The city's efforts culminated with USA Cycling Elite National Championship criteriums in June 1998.[42][43] On January 24, 2005, Loveland City Council voted to cancel the Tour, due to declining attendance and a lack of sponsors.[44]
On April 9, 1999, Loveland found itself in the path of an F4 tornado (see Fujita scale). The tornado claimed four fatalities, including a Loveland resident,[45] before reaching the city.
With "four blooms", Loveland won the 2005 America in Bloom competition for cities with 10,001 to 15,000 residents.[46] Loveland lost to St. Ives/Carbis Bay in the 2006 Communities in Bloom International Challenge, medium category, but won the "Communities in Bloom Youth Involvement Project Award."[47]
In 2004, CSX Transportation leased the former Baltimore and Ohio railroad to RailAmerica's Indiana and Ohio Railway system.[48][49] On May 4, 2007, Ohio's first four-quadrant gate was installed at the Second Street railroad crossing in Loveland,[50] as part of a coordinated three-crossing system.[51]
Zoning controversies
In recent years, Loveland has seen several controversies over zoning regulations. After the city acquired the White Pillars property in 1996, it began plans to develop the land, which is situated on State Route 48. Prior to being elected councilman, Paul Elliot participated in a lawsuit against the city over attempting to rezone the property for commercial use without voter approval. In 2003, Mike Showler led a successful referendum to block the rezoning.[52] An earlier attempt to develop a YMCA location on a section of Phillips Park also failed, when a group of residents protested the city's development plans, prompting the YMCA to abandon the location.[53][54] In December 2006, Loveland announced a plan to build a Loveland Recreation Center on land adjacent to Phillips Park. The city planned to enter into an operating agreement with the YMCA once the center was built;[54] however, the Recreation Center tax referendum was defeated in May 2007. The Recreation Center plan was later revised,[55] but Loveland residents again rejected an income tax levy to fund the center on November 6, 2007.[56][57]
Shooter's Supply, a local gun store, proposed building an indoor shooting range at the former location of the Matthew 25: Ministries humanitarian agency. Nearby residents have attempted to block the shooting range, which would be built near several apartment complexes and residential neighborhoods, as well as a church. [58] In May 2007, the building was converted into a boarding kennel.[59]
Demographics
As of the census[2][page needed] of 2000, there were 11,677 people, 4,497 households, and 3,224 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,513.5 people per square mile (969.6/km2). There were 4,653 housing units at an average density of 1,001.6/sq mi (386.4/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 95.66% White, 1.56% African American, 0.05% Native American, 1.05% Asian, 0.42% from other races, and 1.26% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.12% of the population.
There were 4,497 households out of which 39.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.6% were married couples living together, 11.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.3% were non-families. 25.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.58 and the average family size was 3.11.
In the city the population was spread out with 29.1% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 30.3% from 25 to 44, 22.7% from 45 to 64, and 11.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 91.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.4 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $52,738, and the median income for a family was $63,535. Males had a median income of $49,653 versus $29,250 for females. The per capita income for the city was $25,920. About 5.7% of families and 5.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.1% of those under age 18 and 4.6% of those age 65 or over. According to 2002 data from the Internal Revenue Service, Loveland residents gave 2.60% of their net income to charity.[60]
Historic population figures
The city had 10,122 people in 1990; 9,990 in 1980; 9,106 in 1970; 7,144 in 1960; 2,149 in 1950; 1,904 in 1940; 1,954 in 1930;[61] 1,557 in 1920; 1,421 in 1910;[61] and 1,260 in 1900. In 1890, Loveland West had 392 residents in on the Hamilton County side,[62] while Loveland had 761 in Clermont and Warren Counties;[63][64] and in 1880 Loveland Village on the Clermont County side had 595 residents[65] and Loveland West on the Hamilton County side had 197.[66]
Education
The city's main public school district, Loveland City School District, operated as separate Loveland East and Loveland West districts until 1926.[19] As of February 2009[update], Loveland High School is located in Symmes Township, just outside the city limits. The northern- and southernmost parts of Loveland are served by Sycamore Community School District. Surrounding communities lie within the boundaries of Kings Local School District (see Kings High School), Milford Exempted Village School District (Milford High School), and Little Miami Local School District (Little Miami High School).[67] The city is also served by the Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Career Development, a regional vocational school district. There are many private schools located near Loveland, including Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy, Archbishop Moeller High School, and Ursuline Academy at the secondary level, and St. Margaret of York School, St. Columban School, and Children's Meeting House Montessori School at the elementary level. At the 2000 census, 24.6% of Loveland children attended private or parochial schools, the nineteenth-highest rate among Greater Cincinnati communities.[68]
The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County maintains a branch library in downtown Loveland, as well as a larger regional branch library in Symmes Township. The nearest branch of the Clermont County Public Library is in Milford. Warren County has no county-wide public library system, but the Mason Public Library is the nearest public library in the county.
Culture and recreation
Biking along the Loveland Bike Trail and canoeing along the Little Miami River are popular activities during the summer. Loveland has a series of 16 city parks, including neighborhood "tot lots", Nisbet Park, a Veteran's Memorial, and Fireman's Memorial. The parks are maintained by the City of Loveland Recreation Commission. The Loveland Bike Trail is a popular segment of the Little Miami Scenic Trail, a state park that runs through the city.
Loveland is included in the Dan Beard Council of the Boy Scouts of America, which operates the 506-acre (205 ha) Dan Beard Reservation campground just south of the city, in Miamiville.[69] In the 1920s, Boy Scout troop leader Harry Andrews built the Loveland Castle (or Château Laroche) on the banks of the Little Miami River; the folly exists today as a museum.[70] Another landmark, Edwin M. Shield's House, is located nearby. The Gothic-style building, also known as the William Johnston House or Shield's Crossing, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[71]
Loveland's indoor attractions include Castle Skateland, a roller skating rink not to be confused with the museum;[72] and the Loveland Stage Company, a theatre group that started in 1979 and has performed at least two major productions each year since 1980. In October 2002, after several years of fundraising and renovations, the group moved into Crist Theater, an old movie theater donated by the Loveland–Symmes Fire Department, which is stationed next door.[73] The theater is being restored[74] after a fire gutted the building on October 20, 2008.[75]
Until the late 1990s, the Baldwin Piano Company was headquartered in Loveland.[76]
JulyFest, SymmesFest, and local church festivals are held annually during the summer months. Fireworks displays by Rozzi's Famous Fireworks of nearby Symmes Township are a staple at such events. Loveland offers a small collection of bars and restaurants including The Works, Paxton's Grill, Blue Chip Cookies, LaRosa's Pizzeria, Cindy's Friendly Tavern, The Sleepy Hollow Inn, and Zappz.
Loveland Castle, also known as
Château Laroche
Although the city's unusual name came from the last name of the village storeowner and postmaster,[31] rather than the concept, Loveland has incorporated a "love" theme throughout the city. Loveland water towers and park signs sport the city's logo: a red heart inscribed with a sun, clouds, and the Little Miami River, and surrounded with the city's nickname, "Sweetheart of Ohio." The Loveland Post Office, which began operations on October 24, 1831 as the Obionsville Post Office,[77] was also the site of the United States Postal Service's unveiling of a special "Love Stamp" in 1994. Each year since 1972, the Loveland Area Chamber of Commerce has run a special Valentine's Day program, which includes a poetry contest and the selection of a volunteer "Valentine Lady", who hand-stamps thousands of envelopes with a Valentine-themed cachet and cancellation that reads "There is nothing in this world so sweet as Love."[78][79] The first Valentine Lady was Doris Pfiester.[80]
Media
Loveland's local media consists of The Loveland Herald, a weekly newspaper published by The Community Press, and two monthly magazines. The weekly newspaper was called The Tri-County Press from 1901 until 1917, when it was renamed The Herald. Defunct newspapers include The Loveland Weekly Herald (1877–?), The Loveland Enterprise (1884–?), The Hustler (1906–1911), The Loveland News World (1980s), and The Loveland Record.[81]
Notable residents
This list includes notable people who at some point lived in Loveland:
- Arts and entertainment
- Athletics
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- Business
- Cecil Bauer – Mayor of Loveland, owner of Bauer Insurance
- Military
- Politics and law
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